You know as well as I, that people generally fear the unknown. PBS thus far for your group and ours is an unknown. People run from stuff such as this. You also know, you can only get as much as the company is willing to offer. Thus you look for trade offs. As mentioned before, why hold an entire contract hostage over PBS when you can do it outside of Section 6 and maintain leverage and be able to walk out whenever.
However, pilots being the whiners they can be will complain about anything given the opportunity. You could offer a room full of pilots $250K a year to only fly one four trip a month and a couple guys would stand up and complain about it be a four day instead of a three day or that they have to have that Saturday off. This job will never be perfect. Doesn't mean we can strive for but we we need to be realistic in our expectations. What we need to understand is that there are parameters that a company must operate within. This BS about this being management's job is utter garbage. We all should be cognizant of it and look for new and better ways to operate in that envelope to keep our jobs secure and not outsourced as so many have in the past.
